Gloria, just remember that my tear was a 8+ year old tear, I think that qualifies as an "old tear". But, even though mine was shaved off for the "fix", the Surgeon was prepared to open up my shoulder to surgically repair the tear if necessary, but I guess since it was just the old tear there he decided to shave and clean up the area instead. Lucky for me, since my shoulder was marked out for cutting open and that would have been a 6 month to a year recovery, whereas the arthroscopic surgery was 2 months more or less to basically a full recovery....

Jyes